Joan “I guess I’d like her, too if she saved my life.”

Emily “So what’s your story?  I mean aside from wondering about my roommate?”

Joan “I already told you.  I quit the force.  I want to go into the private sector.  See if any of my designs can be of use there.  The real question is what‘s up with you?  That is, what you can share without getting in trouble with your boss.”

Emily “Well… still here.  Still single.  I have a roommate and an ex who’s decided to have dinner with me.”

Joan smirks.

Joan “I’d really like to think after all this time you didn’t just see me as an ex.”

Emily “And I’d like to think you’d know better.”

Joan “Well…  I know the breakup was…”

Emily “A bit unexpected?  We went our separate ways, because our careers were too important?  Something like that?”

Joan only nods.  This is the part of the conversation she had been dreading the most.

Rose Spiritus

There she was, leaving Brooklyn again.

There she was, heading back to Manhattan again.  Going to that same spot again.  That same spot in that same alleyway again.

She can feel this merging happening all around her in that one spot while everyone passing by is oblivious.  She closes her eyes as the orange and black orb begins to spin about.

For a moment, she can see another world entirely.  It was still Manhattan.  It was still the same alleyway.  The people however were different.  The mood was different.  The atmosphere felt different.  She could see a van pulling out with an angry blood stained woman driving it.  The van goes through her as if Rose was just an invisible ghost.

For a moment, she can see another world entirely.  It was still Manhattan.  It was still the same alleyway.  This time, there nothing but ghostly figures passing about, wandering aimlessly.  She sees another blonde woman, but this one was different from the one in the van.  This one was the one from before in the images.  There was the man, clutching pieces of cardboard.  What did any of this mean?

She can feel him looking at her in despair.

Little Linda

She was happy to pose with one of her smallest, but biggest fans in Little Linda Flint, the Mayor’s daughter.  Wonder Woman was happy to oblige, to smile, to provide a source of inspiration to a young girl and hopefully more out there.

Mayor Flint was happy to have photos taken.  He was happy to know that whatever the circumstances were, his daughter was now happy.

Soon, Wonder Woman would depart and it would be back to the responsibilities of her school studies for Little Linda.

She had been rescued from a tree, but now she felt like she could do anything one day, just like her heroes.  Just like Wonder Woman.

Lorraine Lewis

Lorraine knew she was going to have to leave Atlantis and return home before a search party gave up and considered her deceased.  She hated to part ways with Queen Anna of Atlantis.  However, she was informed that if she could find her way back, she would be welcome.

Aboard the Hardy Challenger, Lorraine knew for certain she would be able to top whatever her friend, Betty had seen in space.  “What could Drake possibly have seen other than the usual darkness and Earth from above?” she thought.  Lorraine had just stumbled onto Atlantis.  She had met its leader.  She had met a strong leader named Anna that she had dubbed the ‘Aquawoman.’

Lorraine is hopeful that this is not the last time to the two get to meet.